Knife

Museum number:
2-4005
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-151 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Sheet iron knife with large wooden handle, grooved and painted red. Handle is a copy of a carpenter's saw. Has metal semi-circular blade inserted into a wooden handle in the form of a handle used for a carpenter's hand saw; the latter is decorated with sawtooth design and parallel lines stained red.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaskan Interior, Unknown Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Tanaina
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.9 Multiple Utility
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Woman's knife or ulu.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 17 centimeters
Comment:
Cf. 2-4006. Remarks: cf. Osgood, "Ethnography of the Tanaina", fig. 28B.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-4005, described as Sheet iron knife with large wooden handle, grooved and painted red. Handle is a copy of a carpenter's saw. Has metal semi-circular blade inserted into a wooden handle in the form of a handle used for a carpenter's hand saw; the latter is decorated with sawtooth design and parallel lines stained red.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-4005, described as Sheet iron knife with large wooden handle, grooved and painted red. Handle is a copy of a carpenter's saw. Has metal semi-circular blade inserted into a wooden handle in the form of a handle used for a carpenter's hand saw; the latter is decorated with sawtooth design and parallel lines stained red.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Knife, accession number 2-4005, described as Sheet iron knife with large wooden handle, grooved and painted red. Handle is a copy of a carpenter's saw. Has metal semi-circular blade inserted into a wooden handle in the form of a handle used for a carpenter's hand saw; the latter is decorated with sawtooth design and parallel lines stained red.

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